Free printable Chore Charts
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Free Printable chore charts and low cost rewards build confidence
While most of these free printable chore charts are designed for neurotypical children (kids without neurological or developmental disabilities) I have also tried to find picture chore charts specifically for kids with autism and other developmental disorders.
Kids with Autism and other developmental challenges really thrive on structure and many feel more secure and communicate more easily when they have visual cues. Chore charts can provide them with some stability and structure whether you use them for daily reminders or actually use them for chores. Instead of writing the jobs in the boxes, simply take a few photos or print out some clipart and use velcro dots to affix them as you would with a PECS system!
Does your child with Autism or developmental delays do Chores? If you need help figuring out how to get them to do chores or for ideas on how to modify daily tasks for children with special needs, please click here. But don't forget to come back for your free printable chore chart!
Please note that I have personally visited each and every free printable chore chart link provided on this page to make sure that it was not one of those sites where you land and pop ups happen. When I get to each of these sites I do click around a bit and explore to be sure that they do in fact have what they say they do AND that it is free. A few sites may require free registration, some ask you to sign up for newsletters- I try to make a note of that, but occasionally I may forget, feel free to leave a comment about it if I do.
Toward the bottom of the page you will find low cost options (anything that I have found that costs money will be clearly marked) please explore those links if you had not yet found what you were looking for in the free areas as they MAY offer you the right inspiration to make your own! There are also a few Amazon modules (Again, CLEARLY MARKED) containing suggestions for use with your system- the intent of including them is to simply get your creative juices flowing! Sometimes seeing the product will get you to say "Hey, I have some of those at home that we could use for this!".
I have been frustrated in the past when searching for these items myself as pages like this often send you to sites that require PAID registration- I do NOT want that to happen here- if you come across one that snuck in, please let me know! I would love for this to be a good resource for everyone, your contribution to the list may help someone else, please leave any links that you are aware of, I will check them out and add them. There is also an area that I would like people to vote their favorite free printable chore chart pages up to give other readers a better idea of which ones may be the best and save them some time!
Contents at a Glance
Free Printable Candy Chore Chart
All images on this page are my own work unless otherwise noted.
Copyright Sidther 2011
These are free to print off for home or school. I do ask that anyone using any of my free printables online please link back. Attribution is greatly appreciated.
As you can probably see, I have been practicing a lot with my software! I have gotten much better at drawing on the computer! I still have some older charts on here as I have other free printables like behavior charts that I am working on- gradually you will find more of my better designs showing up on the free chore chart page! I hope that you enjoy these! I have started trying to organize my free printables into albums on an image site.
Pretty Sakura Chore Chart For Girls
FREE printable chore charts
All personally screened
- Chore Charts For Kids Ages 4-10, Free Printable Chore Charts
- This is a great site, you really should explore as they have free printables for EVERYTHING! They have many for autism and ADHD. They also separate them by age group- this link will land you on the chore charts age 4-10 page, scroll down a teeny bit to find the link to chore charts ages 11+. Site navigation is on the left, you may have to do a lot of scrolling down because they really do have SO much.
- lisatong.com :Children's Chore Charts
- Can be opened in word and edited. This chore chart uses IMAGES ....
Create some of your own to add using free clipart. - DLTK's Custom Chore Charts
- free printable customizable chore charts with characters like Blue's Clues, Spongebob, Thomas, Sailor Moon and many many more! Other themes available as well.
- Free Printable Chore Charts
- Get chores done with this chore chart system. Get organized and declutter to help make life easier! Personalized printable chore charts. Clean house each week. Parents and teachers want to teach children how to be independent in a positive way. Chores are a large part of training as children grow up
- Printable Chore Chart with Seven Chores and Pictures
- This printable chore chart, with a peach and red background and star border, lists seven common household chores and hygiene-related tasks for a child, and has pictures to illustrate each chore. FREE TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT OR pay $5 to have access to an editable version of the same chart.
- Free Printable Chore Chart for Girls
- Free Printable Chore Chart- black and white so if your child enjoys coloring and is resistant to chores, perhaps coloring the chart will help them feel more comfortable with it.
- Chore Charts
- Free Printable Chore charts for kids. Just Facebook like (button on the upper left) to be able to download and print.
- Free Printable Chore Charts
- Lots of free printable chore charts to encourage kids to complete their chores while having fun doing so!
- Free Printable Chore Charts For Kids and Teens
- Chore Charts - Free printable chore charts for kids and teens. See tips on setting up a successful chore program.
- Free Printable Chore Charts
- Use a free printable chore chart to get your household organized. Be consisten and fair with a chore chart and instill confidence in your kids.
- Free Customizable Printable Summer Chore Chart for Kids Download
- Free Customizable Printable Summer Chore Chart for Kids Download
- Chore Charts & Chores for Kids | The Household Planner
- Get the free Age Appropriate Chores for Kids to get an idea of what chores are appropriate for what age groups and use the free Chore Chart Downloads to help the kids keep track of what jobs they need to do!
- Childzilla
- Once you become a member you are given your own private, password-protected family home page such as "OurFamily.Childzilla.com."
REQUIRES free registration but offers customizable charts, forums, advice and tips etc on a variety of parenting topics. - Kids Chore Charts
- Discover the hidden benefits of using kids chore charts. Help yourself to these free printable chore charts. 3 links to the charts, center below the cute little girl who is folding diapers!
- Kid-Do List Maker
- Make a colorful to-do list for your kids quickly and easily with special tasks even kids can handle. Just type or select some jobs below, then print or send it via email. And Don't forget to recommend WorkingMom.com to your friends!
Chore charts are great for kids of all ages from toddler to teenager!
If you are on the fence about starting a toddler or preschooler....
When a toddler or preschooler starts doing chores early on, they develop a better sense of "this is just what we do"... if you wait until they are older however, you may face more challenges as they have developed the idea that you do the chores, not them! Rather than being a task that is thrust upon them, it is a daily part of life.
Obviously you have to be sure to give a toddler or preschooler age appropriate chores such as picking up toys, sorting laundry by color or wiping up messes (without chemicals) while older children may be able to safely complete more adult chores.
Regardless of the age of the child, it is important that you reward them for their efforts. Rewards do not need to be big or expensive- they can even be you spending extra time doing an activity with your child that they love! Just make sure to be consistent with your rewards.
Kids with autism or ADHD benefit greatly from the use of chore charts. Because kids with autism (and many with ADHD) are mostly visual thinkers, the chore chart supplies them with visual cues for your verbal directions and may help them organize their thoughts better. Free printable clipart is available in many places so you can create your own pictures to affix to the chart for greater visual support.
For kids with special needs, you can find a few other creative uses for free printable chore charts such as creating a therapy schedule, medications or even daily routines!
Free Printable Chore Chart: Steam Train
Free printable chore charts: Misc Chore Charts
Please link back if using these on line.
Free Printable Chore Chart: Tracks Chore Chart: Will use a moderate amount of ink
Free Printable Chore Charts
Click on the image to open a new window to print them from
Please note that not every image on this page is clickable yet as I am gradually moving my free printables from my computer to an image hosting site!
Free Printable Chore Chart for Kids
Music Themed Chore Chart
Free Printable Chore Chart For Girls
Butterfly Chore Chart
Valentine's Day Chore Chart
Free Printable Captain Corndog Chore Chart
This was my son's idea- he helped me draw it too!
Free Book!
Earning things feels better than just getting things!
Here is a free copy of Ernie Earnswell.Just choose your preferred size from the link list below! I hope this inspires your little one to work hard!
Ernie understands the value of work and respects his property as well as the property of others. In this Ernie Earnswell book (the first in the series), Ernie meets Ashley Affluenza, a pretty girl whose Mom has had 'trouble' saying "No". Ashley becomes spoiled and rude. A little lesson in the value of work changes Ashley's perspective and she soon finds herself filled with pride after helping out with chores and being more respectful!
Pick your size!
I am having difficulty formatting it just right so here are a few options...
- Ernie Earnswell Meets Ashley Affluenza -Medium Sized Pages- Full Color
- This Ernie Earnswell will print A-5 sized or can be downloaded to your computer. It is full color.
- Ernie Earnswell Meets Ashley Affluenza- LARGE Sized Pages- Full Color
- This Ernie Earnswell is 8 1/2x 11 and can be downloaded to your computer. It is a pdf and is full color.
- Ernie Earnswell Meets Ashley Affluenza- LARGE Sized Pages- Gray scale
- This Ernie Earnswell is 8 1/2x 11 and can be downloaded to your computer. It is a pdf and is in gray scale.
NOT FREE :Velcro to add visual cues to a chore chart
I recommend sticking velcro dots on it with movable pictures!
Velcro Sticky-Back Hook and Loop Fasteners, 0.625 Inches Diameter Coins, Clear, 75 per Pack (91302)
Amazon Price: $2.79 (as of 05/31/2012)
These small velcro dots are great for adding images to your chore chart! Simple visual cues such as a Happy face for completed tasks or a sad face for those jobs the child refused to do are an easy way to help your child measure their progress throughout the week! The dots are clear, and by using these instead of drawing on the chart, you will likely get more time out of the chart!
I do recommend laminating the chart if possible or printing it on card stock for durability. When sticking velcro dots on the chart, it is best to keep the softer side on the small images so that children with tactile aversions will still be willing to participate in putting up their own "job complete' images.
Free Printable Reward Tickets: Steam Train Ticket Reward
Free Printable Rewards for Kids: Please Remember to Reward your child!
Here are some Basic Free Printable Chore Rewards! Please link back if posting these online
Free Rewards for Kids: Basic Chore Bucks
FREE printable Chore rewards or "Chore bucks"
Find a reward system that works for your family- when you reward your child you encourage them to keep doing their chores.
- Chore Bucks by chart jungle
- Free printable chore bucks- each page has 3 bucks on it.
- Free Printable Reward Chart
- Free Printable Reward Chart
- Printable Behavior Bucks, Reward Bucks
- Scroll down a bit, lots of printable reward buck choices!
- Free Sheet of "Reward Bucks" by Lorin Neikirk in Education & Language
- Free Sheet of "Reward Bucks" by Lorin Neikirk: Download for free! Good behavior is worth more than a dozen bucks, it's priceless. This page can be cut into individual bills to be distributed for good behavior. Dole out generously, and watch your investment grow!
- Clean Bucks - To Encourage Kids to do Chores *Printable | Free Sample Momma
- Print Clean Bucks- very cute images!
- Create | Add popular Characters to online drawings | Disney
- Add popular Disney Characters to your own comics, online drawings, animods, mashups and more. You could either create your own cool thing to hand out or let your child do it!
Special Holiday Reward Bucks for kids
Just click the preview image to open up a sheet of multiple free printable holiday reward bucks!
Public Domain Bats, Owl and Witch clipart by OCAL
Public Domain Bats, Owl and Witch clipart by OCAL
FREE chore tips, and creative ideas to get it done!
- Get your chore on. | the creative mama
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Do your children help out at home? Do you have a chore chart for them, use chore cards.... - We are not our children's slaves
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- Age Specific Responsibilities | New Life Community Church
- Practical Suggestions for Responsibilities You Can Expect Your Child to Begin at Specific Ages (Dependent in the early years on verbal/motor development) Ryan
- Teaching Children Fiscal Responsibility through Prepaid Credit Cards
- "People are normally critical on new concepts and ideas, especially if the application of those ideas and concepts come with considerable risks...."
This is a great article about using prepaid cards- if you have considered it I strongly recommend reading this!
Have you used FREE printable chore charts before?
NOT FREE: Ideas to Reward Your Child
Rewarding your child is the best way to encourage them to continue doing their chores
If you look below you will see poker chips, stickers and even party favors. Do you have anything like those things around the house that you could create a reward system with? Do you have games in the closet that no one uses anymore like checkers or connect four with chips that could be used as reward tokens?
When using a reward buck system or poker chip system you should decide on the big prize before introducing the system to your child- then be sure to explain the system in a way that they can understand. For example in my system we use the reward bucks. My son earns them doing various chores and can get bonus bucks for getting perfect scores on tests at school. In our system when he was 3 years old I displayed a brand new toy on top of the fridge with a post it note that had the "price" on it. When he had enough reward bucks he got the prize. Now that he is older, he gets $10 instead!
Although our system is 1 reward buck for one dollar, we have made it more affordable by grouping the chores together- for example when he cleans his room, he gets the dollar for the whole room, not just for picking up the floor- he must wipe down the shelves, vacuum and take his laundry downstairs to get that dollar- when he was first starting though- each buck was worth $0.25 and he earned one for EVERY small task. We encourage him to keep his room clean all the time by giving him a reward buck for every 3 days where nothing needed to be done at all (a weekly vacuuming as I do the rest of the house does not count against his efforts).
NOT FREE: Pre paid credit cards designed as rewards for chores
Personally, I bought a little "reloadable visa" at the checkout AND a gift card to Toys R Us, we use the toys r us card most of the time- and it is free to have and reloadable. Please use caution with Pre Paid Debit cards. Do not get one that allows your child to spend more than they have!
But in case you are interested in something a little more mature to help teach fiscal responsibility....
- PAYjr Visa Buxx Prepaid Debit Cards for Teens | Chore & Allowance
- PAYjr Visa Buxx offers an innovative chore and allowance system for kids and teens, in conjunction with prepaid, Visa Buxx, reloadable debit cards. Discover a new way for teens to make and receive payments.
- Get a Card | BillMyParents
- A selection of cards- it says "Get a reloadable prepaid MasterCard for your teen. No activation fee, no overdraft fees, accepted at millions of locations worldwide"- Please note that it did NOT mention monthly or annual fees or if it would automatically draw from the parent's account....
Visual Cues help younger kids and kids with Autism and other disabilities understand their chore chart!
Images above may be found at CLKR, OCAL and some are shapes in photoshop.
Chore charts help provide structure and routine, but some kids need more than that! A text based chore chart is great for some kids, but young kids and kids with autism may do better with image based chore charts.
Kids with autism are visual thinkers so a simple clipart image (or better yet a photo that you take from around your own home) can really help them understand what is truly expected of them. Visual support is used for autism throughout the day at most schools and many therapists use them as well so a child with autism is probably familiar with visual cues.
Visual Cues for chores
These Chore visual cues fit most visual cues systems when cut out
The public domain clipart used in this chore visual cues page can be found on http://www.clker.com/
FREE Clipart you can use to make Visual cues on your chart!
- Visual Aids for Learning - Home Pack
- Free downloads of visual aids for school and home. GREAT SITE!!!!! Go HERE for visual cues!!!!
- Public Domain Clip Art
- This link takes you straight to the collection for search term "clean". The site has a search button on the upper left- GREAT resource- all public domain!
- Search results for clean - OpenClipArt
- Providing an online repository for high quality Public Domain vector graphics on the internet
- The online royalty free public domain clip art - vector clip art online, royalty free & public domain
- Public domain clipart- if you register (free) then you can modify the clipart right on the site.
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Special Holiday Free Printable Chore Chart: Frosty
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- You are a very creative and resouceful person. A wonderful lens. Thanks, I will be back.
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- Wow .. these are great charts. My stepson is taller than me now, so these probably wouldn't work at our house. :)
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